It’s 1st of January, 2015 and the air is gay, and from major capitals revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the shores of Sydney harbor and New York’s Times Square to welcome 2015, and Lagos bar beach to welcome the New Year.
For the records, residents of Australia’s Christmas Island were the first to welcome 2015 while Baker Island and Howland Island, small regions in the US, will be the the final places to celebrate the new year.
Here are some of the sights we were able to capture from various New Year celebrations
Happy New Year from Sydney, Australia
Happy New Year from Dubai, United Arab Emirates!
Happy New Year from Hong Kong
Happy New year -Dubai
Happy New Year 2015. from Vietnam
Fireworks explode above Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
People photograph fireworks as they celebrate the New Year in Red SquareFireworks light the sky over the Kremlin’s Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower, covered by scaffolding (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)
The London Eyecelebrate the beginning of the New Year atop a high-rise overlooking the iconic Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks sitting on a Ford Mustang1.6million people gathered on the shores of the Sydney Harbour for the midnight fireworks showMalaysia’s landmark Petronas Twin Towers during New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur
Fireworks go off at the Taipei 101 skyscraper to celebrate New Year 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan
Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong as the city ushered in the New Year
New Year celebrations at Jogye Buddhist temple in SeoulBuddhist monks and believers pray during a ceremony to celebrate the new year at Bongeun Buddhist temple in Seoul
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, as the country welcomes in 2015
Revelers watch a laser show being projected on buildings as the countdown for the New Year begins in Manila, Philippines
2015 is written in the air with a sparkler at the frozen Mana River in the Taiga district outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
